Yep. Add to it the fact that the update that kills otheros is only required if you want to keep using "your" ps3 (how is it yours if it obeys another party not you and it's arguably illegal to change this?) for games and sony online content. That is, if you value OtherOS (like I do), you pretty much already dedicated the box to doing only linux. Combine the various hacks that will allow you to escape OtherOS with this fact and the net result is that you can either stay in the now-unsupported sandbox with its six SPUs or else you can hack "your" ps3 to get the full seven SPUs (and perhaps play games again).
I only see win here.
One of the things Microsoft has done well for many years now (since they got called on the carpet about Windows 95) is providing compatibility with assistive technology used by the blind. Their current push is for a set of APIs called User Automation.
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For the [non-minor visual, physical, and audio as well as any other] disabilities, access is via an assistive technology (AT) that mediates the user experience. This is where our the accessibility challenges lie. The challenges stem from the fact that Microsoft Windows doesn't provide a real accessibility infrastructure - as compared to UNIX systems with GNOME, the Java platform, or Macintosh OS X. In Windows, virtually all of the information needed by assistive technologies has to be obtained by patching the operating system, replacing/chaining video drivers, reverse engineering applications, and/or using proprietary COM interfaces to get at the data within an application. The first accessibility API Microsoft put forth for accessibility - Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) - fails to provide most of the information needed for screen reading and other AT uses, and is being supplanted in future Windows releases. What this means is that for an application to be accessible in Microsoft Windows via a particular assistive technology, that AT vendor has to have made a significant investment in customizing their product to that application. The greater the customization investment, the "more accessible" an application is deemed to be, at least via that particular AT. For example, the Windows screen reader with the largest market share, JAWS, has made a huge investment in customization of their product to Microsoft Office (and in contrast made a much smaller investment in customization for WordPerfect). For this reason blind folks generally feel that Microsoft Office is "accessible" (and that WordPerfect "isn't as accessible") - not because of work done by Microsoft or Corel, but work done (or not done) by Freedom Scientific, the creator of JAWS.
Personally, I like to map the right Menu key to Compose. Compose+- L -> £; Compose+' e -> é; Compose+^ a -> â, etc. There's even Compose+m u -> ! Oh, and the quite important Compose+= c ->
It's what helps me write little snippets of German and things when I'm in the US without going whole hog and using a German keyboard layout.
It's clear that they can see where the license is used on warez sites without spying. But how do they know what countries the *users* are in, and how do they push the advertising to them? Inquiring minds want to know!
Too bad TFA didn't link to the original blog post (http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2010/09/09/js-benchmarks-closing-in/) nor the update (http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2010/11/16/reporting-a-bug-on-a-fragile-analysis/) (in which a bug is allegedly filed, though nobody else can apparently see it).
The non-MSFT-beholden vendors (e.g. System76 and ZaReason) still have Linux netbooks, notebooks, desktops, and workstations. Oddly, given economies of scale, in much, much wider variety than the big, MSFT-beholden vendors.
I dunno about you, but I've taken my money to the Linux-supporting little guys (who have better service anyway).
(and, to be sure, that isn't the entire picture; proteins are ginormous and extremely complicated, so "ionizing radiation" is too much of a simplification. To be generous, you could say that we could go up to 100nm, which still leaves us 5 orders of magnitude smaller than the wifi wavelength. heating may do damage, just like any other heating, but you're gonna have to work harder to do the damage, and see the corneas comment above for additional details).
Microwave oven: 500-1000W (low-power oven; article mentions up to 2000W http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven) (also note that it is concentrated within its shielding, i.e. the microwave, so the power density is quite huge in there)
So by comparing a wifi transmitter to a microwave oven, you're glossing over the fact that the microwave is at *least* 500x the power of the wifi transmitter (highest 802.11n power and lowest microwave power) *at the transmitter* (swallow 1/r^2 if you're not right at the transmitter) and more likely (using a midrange 1.33kW and "normal"-ish 33mW to keep the math easy) puts the microwave at 40,000 times the power of the wifi transmitter at the transmitter.
"It's not that the signal is low energy, it's that the radiation is not at a frequency that can do any damage"
Given that you say "boost the power to the point where it boiled the water in your cells" I think you're confusing energy (h \nu where nu is the frequency) and power, i.e. energy per second (and power density at that, i.e. energy per square meter per second)
You get it mostly right, though with "if one photon can't do any damage, neither can a thousand photons." You mean breaking bonds, not heating damage. I.e. it's not "ionizing radiation".
Even if it doesn't break molecular bonds by being off-resonance, you can heat with it by exciting motion across the whole molecule in e.g. polar molecules like water (and these are dependent upon frequency as well, since molecules "like to" move (i.e. are resonant) in different ways (different modes) and at different frequencies, hence the FCC power recommendations for ham radio even for wavelengths that are large compared to parts of your body). So you can make up for a lack of efficacy (i.e. by being off-resonance) by throwing more power at it (unless, of course, the molecule is completely non-reacting). So you won't get cancer from it, but you can burn yourself by handling an antenna while it's transmitting or by being too close to one (power density falls off as 1/r^2, so being sufficiently far away is perfectly acceptable and thus why hams can be required to put up fencing to keep people away from antennas).
Of course, wifi transmitters are under 100mW (I think that's the upper limit I've seen) so you can calculate the number of photons being emitted per second, and thus how many photons are being received per second per square meter at some distance from the transmitter, using E=h \nu and the various formulas introduced implicitly above).
E = h \nu
"It's not that the signal is low energy, it's that the radiation is not at a frequency that can do any damage"
Given that you say "boost the power to the point where it boiled the water in your cells" I think you're confusing power, i.e. energy per second (and power density at that, i.e. energy per square meter per second)
You get it right, though with "if one photon can't do any damage, neither can a thousand photons."
You can heat with it, though, by exciting motion in e.g. polar molecules (and these are dependent upon frequency as well, since molecules "like to" move (i.e. are resonant) in different ways (different modes) and at different frequencies, hence the FCC power recommendations for ham radio even for wavelengths that are large compared to parts of your body). So you can make up for a lack of efficacy (i.e. by being off-resonance) by throwing more power at it (unless, of course, the molecule is completely non-reacting).
A top-tier vendor has a whopping three notebooks (including one home laptop, one netbook and one business laptop) and two desktops (one home, one business)?
ZaReason has seven laptops (one netbook and six notebooks; there is a netbook which isn't currently shown that's sold out and getting refreshed) and eight desktops (one nettop and seven desktops).
Something odd is going on if significantly smaller companies can offer a significantly larger selection.
there isn't a lot that MS can do except develop their own hardware.
And extort patent protection money from Android vendors, e.g. HTC.http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/microsoft-says-android-infringes-on-its-patents-licenses-htc/
My recommendation is to opt in to the HTML5 beta (uses WebM; http://www.youtube.com/html5 ; it seems to occasionally forget that I'm in the beta program) and the forget the rest.:)
Yeah, I was pretty amused by that campaign. My mind kept phrasing it as "The decision engine. From the company that brought you Bob and the Blue Screen of Death....";)
I don't care about the stickers. Gimme non-horked ACPI data please. Sure, you don't manufacture the motherboards, but you can provide the OOEMs and OEMs the same sort of incentives that drive their sticker adoption.
They immediately share the new virus information with the other anti-virus vendors, right?
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If you're interested, "Systems Programming for Windows 95" is highly enlightening. It's still on my bookshelf, despite being pretty antiquated. It's interesting the convolutions they went through to be almost-but-not-quite DOS.
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Yep. Add to it the fact that the update that kills otheros is only required if you want to keep using "your" ps3 (how is it yours if it obeys another party not you and it's arguably illegal to change this?) for games and sony online content. That is, if you value OtherOS (like I do), you pretty much already dedicated the box to doing only linux. Combine the various hacks that will allow you to escape OtherOS with this fact and the net result is that you can either stay in the now-unsupported sandbox with its six SPUs or else you can hack "your" ps3 to get the full seven SPUs (and perhaps play games again). I only see win here.
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Quoth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_UI_Automation
Seems to be a decade missing there.
apparently slashdot didn't like the Greek mu. :) Or Euro. *sigh*
Personally, I like to map the right Menu key to Compose. Compose+- L -> £; Compose+' e -> é; Compose+^ a -> â, etc. There's even Compose+m u -> ! Oh, and the quite important Compose+= c -> It's what helps me write little snippets of German and things when I'm in the US without going whole hog and using a German keyboard layout.
It's clear that they can see where the license is used on warez sites without spying. But how do they know what countries the *users* are in, and how do they push the advertising to them? Inquiring minds want to know!
Sorry; perhaps it wasn't clear: I meant that their linux selection is much wider than the Big Vendors.
Too bad TFA didn't link to the original blog post (http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2010/09/09/js-benchmarks-closing-in/) nor the update (http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2010/11/16/reporting-a-bug-on-a-fragile-analysis/) (in which a bug is allegedly filed, though nobody else can apparently see it).
The non-MSFT-beholden vendors (e.g. System76 and ZaReason) still have Linux netbooks, notebooks, desktops, and workstations. Oddly, given economies of scale, in much, much wider variety than the big, MSFT-beholden vendors. I dunno about you, but I've taken my money to the Linux-supporting little guys (who have better service anyway).
I've seen similar statistics about migrations to OOo from MSO from people willing to put their names behind it. Perhaps MSO is just crap?
It's probably easier than switching to OOo than the ribbon.
"I would never harm ye, friend, but please be aware that thou art standing where I'm about to shoot."
(and, to be sure, that isn't the entire picture; proteins are ginormous and extremely complicated, so "ionizing radiation" is too much of a simplification. To be generous, you could say that we could go up to 100nm, which still leaves us 5 orders of magnitude smaller than the wifi wavelength. heating may do damage, just like any other heating, but you're gonna have to work harder to do the damage, and see the corneas comment above for additional details).
And atomic bonds are on the order of Å (tenths of a nm, or 10^{-10}m, or 10^{-8}cm.
Microwave oven: 500-1000W (low-power oven; article mentions up to 2000W http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven)
(also note that it is concentrated within its shielding, i.e. the microwave, so the power density is quite huge in there)
Wifi: up to 1W ("normal" is 0.03W: http://www.fcc.gov/pshs/techtopics/techtopics10.html)
So by comparing a wifi transmitter to a microwave oven, you're glossing over the fact that the microwave is at *least* 500x the power of the wifi transmitter (highest 802.11n power and lowest microwave power) *at the transmitter* (swallow 1/r^2 if you're not right at the transmitter) and more likely (using a midrange 1.33kW and "normal"-ish 33mW to keep the math easy) puts the microwave at 40,000 times the power of the wifi transmitter at the transmitter.
Urgh. \. was unresponsive so sorry for the semi-double-post.
E = h \nu
"It's not that the signal is low energy, it's that the radiation is not at a frequency that can do any damage"
Given that you say "boost the power to the point where it boiled the water in your cells" I think you're confusing energy (h \nu where nu is the frequency) and power, i.e. energy per second (and power density at that, i.e. energy per square meter per second)
You get it mostly right, though with "if one photon can't do any damage, neither can a thousand photons." You mean breaking bonds, not heating damage. I.e. it's not "ionizing radiation".
Even if it doesn't break molecular bonds by being off-resonance, you can heat with it by exciting motion across the whole molecule in e.g. polar molecules like water (and these are dependent upon frequency as well, since molecules "like to" move (i.e. are resonant) in different ways (different modes) and at different frequencies, hence the FCC power recommendations for ham radio even for wavelengths that are large compared to parts of your body). So you can make up for a lack of efficacy (i.e. by being off-resonance) by throwing more power at it (unless, of course, the molecule is completely non-reacting). So you won't get cancer from it, but you can burn yourself by handling an antenna while it's transmitting or by being too close to one (power density falls off as 1/r^2, so being sufficiently far away is perfectly acceptable and thus why hams can be required to put up fencing to keep people away from antennas).
Of course, wifi transmitters are under 100mW (I think that's the upper limit I've seen) so you can calculate the number of photons being emitted per second, and thus how many photons are being received per second per square meter at some distance from the transmitter, using E=h \nu and the various formulas introduced implicitly above).
E = h \nu "It's not that the signal is low energy, it's that the radiation is not at a frequency that can do any damage" Given that you say "boost the power to the point where it boiled the water in your cells" I think you're confusing power, i.e. energy per second (and power density at that, i.e. energy per square meter per second) You get it right, though with "if one photon can't do any damage, neither can a thousand photons." You can heat with it, though, by exciting motion in e.g. polar molecules (and these are dependent upon frequency as well, since molecules "like to" move (i.e. are resonant) in different ways (different modes) and at different frequencies, hence the FCC power recommendations for ham radio even for wavelengths that are large compared to parts of your body). So you can make up for a lack of efficacy (i.e. by being off-resonance) by throwing more power at it (unless, of course, the molecule is completely non-reacting).
If you click on "Personalize," you get Ubuntu. If you click on the PC itself, you go to a generic page which then forwards to a Windows-only page.
A top-tier vendor has a whopping three notebooks (including one home laptop, one netbook and one business laptop) and two desktops (one home, one business)?
Seriously?!
System76 has five notebooks (two netbooks, three laptops) and six desktops (two nettops, four desktops).
ZaReason has seven laptops (one netbook and six notebooks; there is a netbook which isn't currently shown that's sold out and getting refreshed) and eight desktops (one nettop and seven desktops).
Something odd is going on if significantly smaller companies can offer a significantly larger selection.
And extort patent protection money from Android vendors, e.g. HTC.http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/28/microsoft-says-android-infringes-on-its-patents-licenses-htc/
My recommendation is to opt in to the HTML5 beta (uses WebM; http://www.youtube.com/html5 ; it seems to occasionally forget that I'm in the beta program) and the forget the rest. :)
Yeah, I was pretty amused by that campaign. My mind kept phrasing it as "The decision engine. From the company that brought you Bob and the Blue Screen of Death...." ;)
I don't care about the stickers. Gimme non-horked ACPI data please. Sure, you don't manufacture the motherboards, but you can provide the OOEMs and OEMs the same sort of incentives that drive their sticker adoption.
They immediately share the new virus information with the other anti-virus vendors, right?
If you're interested, "Systems Programming for Windows 95" is highly enlightening. It's still on my bookshelf, despite being pretty antiquated. It's interesting the convolutions they went through to be almost-but-not-quite DOS.